[CS-FSLUG] Why Go To Church?

[Jukka]

On 6/22/05, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> If you're spiritually alive, you're going to love this! If you're spiritually
> dead, you won't want to read it. If you're spiritually curious, there is
> still hope!
> 
> 
> Why Go To Church?
> 
> A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that
> it made no sense to go to church every Sunday, "I've gone for 30 years now,"
> he wrote, "and in that  time I haveheard something like 3,000 sermons. But
> for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them.. So, I think I'm
> wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."
> 
> This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to
> the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this
> clincher: "I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has
> cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire
> menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this... They all
> nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had
> not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I
> had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"
> 
> When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith sees the
> invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for
> our physical AND our spiritual nourishment!
> 
> All right now that you're done reading ......send it on!!! I think everyone
> should read this!!

Good story!

Hebrews 10:25 (KJV):
"Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of
some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see
the day approaching."

Blessings,
Jukka